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From: Paul Fulghum <paulkf@microgate.com>
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Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>, Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] new tty buffering locking fix
Date: Tue, 07 Feb 2006 20:56:18 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <43E95DD2.6000601@microgate.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43E95A40.7010905@microgate.com>

Paul Fulghum wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> 
>> Thats going to hurt memory consumption in the worst cases.
> 
> I'll gather some accounting info tomorrow,
> and consider the more pathological cases.

Now that I think about it (ow!), there is a simple way
to cap the memory penalty to a single extra buffer allocation
and still maintain the existing interface behavior.

I'll post a new patch tomorrow.

Thanks,
Paul

--
Paul Fulghum
Microgate Systems, Ltd

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-08  2:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200602032312.k13NCbWb012991@hera.kernel.org>
2006-02-07 12:34 ` [PATCH] new tty buffering locking fix Olaf Hering
2006-02-07 16:21   ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-07 17:11     ` Olaf Hering
2006-02-07 18:47       ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-07 21:27       ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-08  1:14         ` Alan Cox
2006-02-08  2:41           ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-08  2:56             ` Paul Fulghum [this message]
2006-02-08 22:05           ` Paul Fulghum
2006-02-08 22:39             ` Olaf Hering
2006-01-26 20:33 Paul Fulghum

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